To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC's online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357).
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First, Facebook is big, and as the FTC-Google investigation illustrates, big increasingly triggers antitrust scrutiny even without any evidence of bad conduct.
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Operating under legitimate-sounding names like National Scholarship Foundation, College Financial Aid Services of America and Student Assistance Services--all of which have been shut down by the FTC--they guarantee college scholarships and increased financial aid.
Adam Mossoff, Professor at George Mason University School of Law and an invited panelist at the December 10 FTC-DOJ workshop, on behalf of the Innovation Alliance, which represents innovators, patent owners and stakeholders from a diverse range of industries that believe in the critical importance of maintaining a strong patent system that supports innovative enterprises of all sizes.
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Starting Feb. 14, Wu will advise the FTC on long-range competition and consumer protection policy initiatives, according to a Columbia University press release.
With the likelihood of legislative battles over privacy erupting next year, Swindle is emerging as the Internet industry's point person on the FTC for self-regulation.
The FTC recruited 13- to 16-year-olds, unaccompanied by a parent, to attempt to buy R-rated movie tickets, R-rated movie DVDs, unrated DVDs of movies that were R-rated when first released in theaters, music CDs carrying a Parental Advisory Label (PAL) that warns of explicit content, and video games rated M that may be suitable for persons age 17 and older.
In 2009, however, Dr Soghoian was contracted by the FTC to provide lawyer-to-geek translation for its staff.
The Rule contains a "safe harbor" provision that allows industry groups or others to seek FTC approval of self-regulatory guidelines.
People who file complaints with the FTC get a toll-free phone number for follow-up questions and are encouraged to contact state regulators.
Specifically, they were meeting to discuss potential FTC and EU anti-trust lawsuits against the tech giant, in an attempt to resolve the Google problem.
Despite three complaints that EPIC has issued against perceived privacy violations by Google Buzz and Facebook's recent data-sharing moves--one released Tuesday--the FTC hasn't taken any action against the companies.
Howard Beales, who led the FTC's consumer-protection bureau from 2001 to 2004, said the recent jump in complaints against debt collectors should have triggered an increase in enforcement actions, despite the agency's limited resources.
While earlier this week, the FTC published a 57-page report of privacy recommendations which included the addition of a "do not track" system intended to give us more control over our online data.
How is that anti-competitive, or for that matter, as the FTC and The Times allege, anti-consumer?
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The FTC gets exercised over weight-loss claims, while Coke wants consumers to do more heavy lifting.
Additionally, the FTC handed out a non-monetary prize to Google for a robo challenge achievement award.
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The FTC is concerned the high-speed cable systems that Time Warner is rolling out across the US, covering 20% of the population, will only be available to AOL users.
Reback seemed to acknowledge that Google might find a way to maneuver politically around the FTC to avoid a full-scale assault on the way it conducts its search business.
The debt-collection industry has garnered special attention because the FTC receives more complaints about it than any other, with third-party debt collectors generating 155, 640 complaints in 2011, up from 96, 102 in 2009.
This year, however, Bernstein has decided the FTC will undertake its own follow-up study.
Thus, he views the FTC rulings as favorable to youth-oriented Web businesses.
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Many free market critics of the FTC have stated that the fast-paced nature of the tech industry has rendered antitrust law as ineffective or even obsolete.
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At an industry privacy seminar earlier this month, Federal Trade Commission Consumer Privacy chief David Vladeck said the FTC has set up a full-scale forensic mobile lab dedicated to reviewing applications on iPads, iPhones, Androids, and other smartphones.
The FTC footnoted the approach in its 122-page paper on online privacy this winter.
This was an eight-year study by the FTC which involved 1, 001 consumers and reviewed 2, 968 credit reports.
The other high-growth area in the FTC report was complaints about banks and lenders, which rose 33% to 132, 000.
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The bill would give the FTC authority to write rules for personal-data gatherers.
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